The Jaffrey Civic Center will host its 50th Anniversary Exhibit will open Friday, Sept. 23, with a reception.
The exhibit will showcase early photographs and other documentation of people, art shows, and special events and activities which have taken place during the first half-century at the Civic Center.
The reception, from 5 to 7 p.m., will feature guest speaker Robert D. Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy. He is the author of 14 books, including “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis,” on the growing class gap among American young people.
The reception will include light fare and for dessert a chocolate fountain from Ava Marie’s to cap the celebration.
The reception is free and open to the public.
The exhibit, on display in the first-floor cases, will run through Oct. 20.
For more information, contact the center at 532-6527 or info@jaffreyciviccenter.com, or visit www.jaffreyciviccenter.com.